Studied by 46 people
632
Rise of Islam
732
Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
1054
1st Schism in Christian Church
1066
Norman conquest of England
1071
Battle of Manzikert
1095
1st Crusade
1258
Mongols sack Baghdad
1271-1295
Travels of Marco Polo
1324
Mansa Musa's pilgrimage
1325-1349
Travels of Ibn Battuta
1347-1348
Bubonic plague in Europe
1433
End of Zheng He's voyages
1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
1488
Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
1492
Columbus/Reconquista of Spain (Columbus sailed the ocean blueee)
1502
1st African Slaves to Americas
1517
Martin Luther 95 theses
1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1533
Pizarro toppled the Inca
1571
Battle of Lepanto
1588
British defeat Spanish Armada
1600
Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa
1607
Foundation of Jamestown
1618-1648
30 years war
1683
Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
1689
Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
1756-1763
7 years war
1776
American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations
1789
French Revolution
1804
Haitian independence
1815
Congress of Vienna
1820s
Independence in Latin America
1839
1st Opium War in China
1848
European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto
1853
Commodore Perry opens Japan
1857
Sepoy Mutiny
1861
end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification
1863
Emancipation Proclamation in US
1871
German unification
1885
Berlin Conference - division of Africa
1898
Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico
1899-1902
Boer War - British in control of South Africa
1905
Russo-Japanese War
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution
1911
Chinese Revolution (end of dynastic China)
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